Impaired Glucose Tolerance in the U. S. Population
Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) constitutes two-thirds of all glucose intolerance in the United States and is a major risk factor for diabetes. Despite these findings, the clin...
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Comparative effects of personal and situational influences on job outcomes of new professionals.
We investigated the relative and combined effects of personal and situational variables on job outcomes of new professionals. The personal variables were cognitive ability, soci...
Scope, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced early in the covid-19 pandemic: rapid review
Abstract Objective To appraise the availability, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced in the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic....
SARS in Hospital Emergency Room
Thirty-one cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred after exposure in the emergency room at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The index patient was link...
The 6-Minute Walk as an Appropriate Exercise Test in Elderly Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
A treadmill exercise test with VO2max measurement in elderly patients with CHF is difficult to accomplish. On the contrary, the 6 MW gives a good impression of the remaining exe...
High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z > 3.6) discovered from ~140 deg^2 of five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken by the Sloan...
Defining Molecular Targets to Prevent Alzheimer Disease
An explosion of new techniques to explore DNA and protein biology during the last 2 decades has illuminated one of the most enigmatic and intractable subjects in biomedicine—neu...
Expectation Propagation for Exponential Families
This is a tutorial describing the Expectation Propagation (EP) algorithm for a general exponential family. Our focus is on simplicity of exposition. Although the overhead of tra...
Ubiquitous presence of cat allergen in cat-free buildings: probable dispersal from human clothing.
Fel d I has been found in almost all houses investigated, including those in which cats have never been present. These observations have not been explained. We measured Fel dI i...
Do Trends in Population Levels of Blood Pressure and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors Explain Trends in Stroke Event Rates?
Background and Purpose— Previous studies have indicated a reasonably strong relationship between secular trends in classic cardiovascular risk factors and stroke incidence withi...